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#mage Malastar is a mage from the The Nameless.

The Nameless mat lore: "You can always tell which younglings will be mages. Mostly, they are girls, but sometimes a boy-child will carry the spark, though weaker than their sister-kind. Training each of them is my sad calling, for mages come and go like the black days in this place.

First, they learn the sister-words, the mage's tongue, the language of all things. Next we fashion them a gem, one that is theirs alone, a conduit for their nascent power. After this, Kadir takes them deep within the bowels of the cave, where they must find their way back with only their gem to protect them. Many find their way home, but we have lost many would-be mages in my years.

A student's last task is to slay a beast, armed again only with their gem and their wits. The child is dropped down a shaft outside Chasmwalk, left alone with whatever miscreation we have snared from the void. Sometimes the creature is wounded, weak, but always they are hungry. A student that navigates this ordeal is named apprentice. After that, one need only survive long enough to earn the rank of mage." ― Malastar

Wave 1 cards:

• Immolate (Malastar Starter Spell): "His charge is two-fold: to guide his former students as needed and to train the younglings that will fight for Gravehold when the others fall."
• Core set Spark: "A spark is all that is necessary to rouse the flame" Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Phoenix Flame (Spell): "In The World That Was, there were great birds, born of fire and ash. They were thought to be immortal, and yet none now remain." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor (Note: Malastar refers to phoenixes that were the animals killing nameless and first to use breach magic as explained in the descent)
• Dark Fire (Spell): "Xaxos always says, to come back to light, we must first visit the shadow." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Skewer (Basic Attack): "It takes years to train a breach mage properly, but only a second to snuff one out." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Woven Sky (Basic Power): "Nym looked up in awe as Malastar pointed to the rolling air at the dome of the cave. 'Those, boy, are stars.'"
• Pulverizing Ray (Basic Power): "The ground absorbed the latent energy left by the first breaches ever opened. Without this fuel our spells, out fate would be certain." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Blot the Sun (Carapace Queen Power): "Were we still in The World That Was, these wretched things would envelop the very sky." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Vile Feast (Prince of Gluttons Power): "It aims to make us forget what is at stake." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor
• Devouring Shadow (Spell): "To thrive, everything must eat. Even shadows." ― Malastar, Breach Mage Mentor